Dillard v. Dillard

Sears, Justice.

The parties divorced in 1991. The divorce decree obligates the husband to make a specific number of alimony payments in specific amounts, and terminates the husband’s alimony obligation upon the wife’s remarriage. The husband petitioned for modification of alimony in 1993. The trial court dismissed the petition, finding that the husband’s obligation is for lump-sum alimony and as such is not subject to modification. The issue before us is whether the obligation is in fact for lump-sum alimony, or is instead for periodic alimony and subject to modification. Because there are…